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This is like a lower budget version of The Mummy. However, I liked the beginning +1 Star with the fight and the human sacrifices!!!

Unfortunately that's the best part of the movie. As it progresses, the plot descends into confusion and silliness as a few tourists get caught up in a fight to prevent the resurrection of the high priest mummy who is really to be freed after however many thousand years he's been entombed.

I would give it a 2 because I made it to the end, and I'll give it an extra plus just because it showed a little skin with the beginning.

3/10.

And IMDB has now made it so a review has to have 600 characters before it can be entered. I really don't expect that to last very long because people are sure to complain about it. But until that happens I guess we have to expect reviews to be long winded and sometimes about absolutely nothing to do with the show in question.

Tomb, The (2004)

BOMB (out of 4)

Before his recent death, Italian hackmaster Bruno Mattai was able to have a rather strong comeback after several years in retirement. This guy is either hated as a hack or loved as an Ed Wood type filmmaker but I don't see how anyone could enjoy this film. The film deals with a group of scientists who travel to Mexico to find the tomb of an evil King buried hundreds of years before. When they find the tomb, led by a witch, they discover that a mummy is alive and ready to kill them. This extremely low budget film was shot on a Digital camera so that there doesn't work with me from the start. I was hoping Mattai would get back to his so bad it's good film-making style but that never happens and by the ten minute mark I was wanting to turn this thing off. Needless to say but the performances are all horrid and Mattai still doesn't know how to make a film move at a good pace. This one here goes very slowly with nothing happening for it. As with other Mattai films, this one here rips off countless other films including lifted scenes from Army of Darkness and a scene for scene remake of the dance sequence in From Dusk Till Dawn.

If "The Mummy" was to be a low-budget movie with poor acting and poor writers, this was it. The movie starts with a scene that may recall to many the one from "The Mummy", as it develops, you are going to discover that it actually is a poor remake of the movie only here the special effects don't quite figure and the set is in Peru. I've never seen a movie that made me want to leave the theater! Anyway, analyzing the movie we can see that the acting was pretty bad, but at times it was actually viewable (almost makes me fell sorry for voting 1 instead of 2), the special effects weren't that good either, plus I actually saw an Mayan king wearing contact lenses (weird but true) and above all i didn't know watches were actually used in ancient burial rites, but what do I know! When I checked Bruno Mattei's references I thought that since he had directed about 117 movies he learned something from each one (learn from your mistakes) but now I see the truth: You are who you are meant to be!

The movie is an Italian Horror Movie.

The genre of the movie is horror but this movie has nothing. The horror scenes will make you laugh, story is missing so as good execution. Story is very predictable and acting is very poor.

The best part of the movie was it's ending. A pathetic and poor attempt.

I read several reviews before watching this film, assuming that no movie could be as bad as the reviews said this one was, but I was proven wrong, in a very big way! In the first scene I was impressed (IN A NEGATIVE WAY) by how bad the makeup was on the actors! The bald head cap on the lead actor was so wrinkled that the edges of it could be seen from a mile away, later the fake mustache on the guide/professor looked a lot like one of those fakes worn by the Three Stooges. You found yourself just waiting for it to fall out!

The acting was horrific (more so than even the Movie) and took away from any drama that might have slipped out of the rancid script! That was considerable T & A from the beginning onward, if that was anything you wanted to see you'd be better off renting some real soft-core porn!

Move along folk, there ain't nothing to see here!!!